[solved] CUPS-difficulty to delete a printer in cups manager

[charlie6]

Hi,
maybe this looks being trivial...
I made some trials and searches to get a black and white printer among the various CUPS setups; and named that printer CUPS-B&W.

I cannot delete that printer using the cups print manager/printers/delete printer; nor typing a command line in a console:

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# lpadmin -x CUPS_B&W
lpadmin: delete-printer failed: client-error-not-found
[1] 22045
bash: W: command not found
[1]   Exit 1                  lpadmin -x CUPS_B
# 

I went and see on
http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:or ... clnk&gl=be
and found:

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Why Am I Getting Client-Error-Not-Found:
Created at 06:56 May 20, 2005 by steve, last modified at 07:06 Jun 17, 2005
This is the error message which CUPS gives you when you specified a non-existing file to print or a non-existing printer. Listing

as there is no job, I conclude that the printer does not exists...?
here is a list of my printers

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# lpstat -p -d
printer CANON_MP160 is idle.  enabled since Jan 01 00:00
printer CUPS-PDF is idle.  enabled since Jan 01 00:00
printer CUPS_B&W disabled since Jan 01 00:00 -
        No pages found!
printer e-FAX is idle.  enabled since Jan 01 00:00
system default destination: CUPS-PDF
# 

I wonder if the "&" character in the name CUPS_B&W could be the "black sheep" here?
then I do not know what to do.
Any idea?
Thanks for answer, Cheers, Charlie

[rcrsn51]

Go to /etc/cups and open the file printers.conf.

Delete the section that refers to your PDF printer.

Restart CUPS.

[charlie6]

Hi rscn51,

Go to /etc/cups and open the file printers.conf.
Delete the section that refers to your PDF printer.
Restart CUPS.

Done! Thank you !
cheers, charlie